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USA, Whose Hostage?
Ghali Hassan
As a result of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq, the living situation
for the Iraqi people have deteriorated to a level far worse than at any
time before the war. The fabric of Iraqi society have been shredded, and
the war shattered all hope that Iraq would advance on paths to "freedom'
and "democracy". Why, and who is the beneficiary of this act of aggression?
(...) Iraq had never pose a threat to the US. The nation was simply trying
to survive 13-years genocidal sanctions.! In the sunlight, the reasons for
the war on Iraq become more obvious: (1) support for Israel's terror
against the Palestinian people, (2) support for Israel's expansionism, and
(3) enhance America's corporate interests and control over Middle East
vital energy resources...

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Destroy Abu Ghraib!
Mike Whitney, Axis of Logic
This weekend's attacks on the Abu Ghraib prison facility should be welcomed
as a direct assault on the foremost icon of Bush's War of Terror (...)
Saddam never dreamed up the sexually deviant torture that has been used on
the prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Those were authorized by men at the very top
of America's political establishment; many of whom matriculated in
America's finest universities, like Harvard, Yale and Princeton. It's
ironic that these institutions have u! nleashed this new pestilence on the
world; these cadres of latter-day Torquemadas...


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Death of Pope Preempts Misery of Iraq
Kurt Nimmo
Predictably, the death of Karol Wojtyla, also known as Pope John Paul II,
has crowded out other news stories, for instance: U.S IGNORED WMD REALITY
IN IRAQ. "By the time President Bush ordered U.S. troops to disarm Saddam
Hussein of the deadly weapons he was allegedly trying to build, every piece
of fresh evidence had been tested—and disproved—by U.N. inspectors,
according to a report commissioned by the president and released Thursday,"
the Washington Post reports! early today. In other words, Bush groomed a
passel of lies and passed it off as a pretext to invade a sovereign nation
and kill more than 100,000 innocent Iraqis. Now the Strausscons wants to
blame this defective intelligence—i.e., lies—on the CIA and the
"intelligence community"...



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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 4 April 2005
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board,
the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org
...One Iraqi civilian was killed when US occupation soldiers shot him at
one of their checkpoints in al-Fallujah on Monday. The correspondent for
Mafkarat al-Islam in the city reported that a taxi cab driver was shot to
death by US troops when he approached a US checkpoint at the old bridge
near al-Fallujah Hospital. In a separate i! ncident, American soldiers shot
two Iraqi civilians in the al-Fallahat area near al-Fallujah on Monday
(...) In a third American killing, another Iraqi civilian died Monday when
he was crossing the main street in 'Amiriyat al-Fallujah, just south of
al-Fallujah city itself...

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Organized Resistance
The All Spin Zone
Winter is over in Iraq. The activities of millitants over the past few days
signifies one of two things: an indication of a real shitstorm that's about
to come, or truly the last gasp of an organized insurgency. The former is
my opinion, the latter is the opinion you'll read in various corporate
media reports. There's two things that are particularly concerning about
last weekend's Battle of Abu Ghraib (Parts 1 and 2) and today's coordinated
defensive position by militants (! and subsequent firefight) in Baghdad...

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Iraqi Suspect Says U.S. Troops Took Mother Hostage
Waleed Ibrahim, Reuters
An Iraqi apparently suspected by U.S. troops of taking part in attacks in
Baghdad accused U.S. forces on Tuesday of taking his mother and sister
hostage to pressure him and his brothers into surrendering for questioning
(...) Batawi, who spoke to Reuters at the offices of a leading group of
Sunni clerics, said U.S. soldiers searched his home on Saturday. When they
found neither him nor two brothers also on the wanted list, they arrested
hi! s mother and sister, he said. A message purportedly left at the house
by the troops, which urged the brothers to surrender, contained a mobile
telephone number. This was answered by an American soldier who appeared to
be aware of Batawi's accusation but declined further comment...



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"A Disaster for the World; an Assault on Art
The Bombing of the Malwiya Minaret
GARY LEUPP, CounterPunch
...It's hard to understand why any insurgent faction would target the
mosque. It is a Sunni mosque, but respected by the Shiites, and Shiites
haven't been attacking Sunni mosques anyway. A colleague in Middle Eastern
history suggests that insurgents might have wanted to prevent it from being
used as a sniper position in future. Whoever is responsible, the invasion
has produced yet another casualty t! o Iraq's rich cultural heritage (...)
Under the occupation the National Museum has been looted, the National
Library was badly damaged by fires. Tens of thousands of irreplaceable
manuscripts have been lost. In the ancient city of Ur, according to the
Guardian, U.S. forces during the invasion "spray-painted the remains with
graffiti" and stole "kiln-baked bricks made millennia ago." Babylon has
been turned into a military camp causing irreparable damage to the site...

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Iraq War Coverage Reminds Me of Vietnam
John R. MacArthur, Providence Journal (Rhode Island)
...I asked myself the very same question when I picked up The New York
Times on March 24 and read the front-page headline "Backed by U.S., Iraqis
Raid Camp and Report Killing 80 Insurgents." The accompanying "news" story
-- which depicted a "fierce battle" on the shores of Lake Tharthar -- was
based entirely on uncorroborated statements by Iraqi and American spokesmen
that suggested two highly improbable developments: fir! st, that the
so-called Iraqi army had suddenly gotten its act together and was taking
the initiative without U.S. prompting; and second, that the Iraqi rebels
had just as suddenly abandoned their very successful hit-and-run tactics
and started camping in big bunches out in the open, where anyone could see
them. Is this familiar? For anyone who was raised on the press-release war
waged by the Johnson and Nixon administrations, this was very familiar
indeed...


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Bombing and looting Iraq's heritage
MICHAEL JANSEN, The Gulf Today - Iraqwar.ru
...Last Friday, someone, allegedly a rebel packing a bomb in a briefcase,
damaged the top-most level of the 1,155 year-old spiral minaret of the
Abbasid mosque in the Iraqi city of Samarra. This 52-metre tower, the
Malwiya minaret, erected by the Caliph Al Mutawakkil in 852, survived the
Mongol invasions, Ottoman rule, and British occupation only to be harmed
during the the ongoing period of US politico-military over-reach. It was
ap! parently targeted because until two weeks ago US troops used the tower
minaret as a sniper's nest and a platform to observe the movements of
Iraqis in and around the restive city of Samarra, a base for the
resistance. Although it has been generally established by the international
community that heritage sites should not be used as military bases or
posts, the US has more often than not ignored this dictum since it swept
into Iraq...


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The war against us all
By Mumia Abu-Jamal from death row
...This war in Iraq isn't the end; it's the beginning of wars to come all
around the world at the whim of the neo-cons in the White House. This is
the Bush Doctrine come to life: war, war, and more war. War brought to you
by the big corporate masters who run the show. This isn't just a war on
Iraqis or Afghanis or even Arabs or Muslims. It is ultimately a war on us
all...


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Oil-for-food scandal: Washington's preemptive strike on the UN
Peter Symonds, WSWS
...The fact that Annan is in the spotlight over the oil-for-food scandal
demonstrates that the US is not willing to brook any opposition. Annan was
installed as UN Secretary General in 1997 through the efforts of the
Clinton administration to block the reappointment of Bhoutros
Bhoutros-Ghali, of whom Washington was critical. A career UN diplomat,
Annan has always been cautious not to offend the major powers, particularly
the US. I! f he felt compelled to make timid criticisms of the US invasion
of Iraq, it was because he attempted to straddle a deep divide between the
competing interests of the US and European powers...


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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 3 April 2005
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board,
the Free Arab Voice. ( http://www.freearabvoice.org )
...US pursues sectarian divide-and-rule as confessionalist sectarianism
forms basis for new puppet so-called "government" in Baghdad. As a further
step along the road of sectarian partition of Iraq, the puppet "parliament"
in Iraq on Sunday named a Sunni Arab, Hajim al-Husayni - hitherto puppet
so-called "minister of industry"! - to the largely ceremonial post of
speaker of the parliament. In keeping with the colonial sectarian
divide-and-rule strategy employed by imperialist powers in the region, the
"parliamentary agreement" provides for the Kurdish chauvinist leader Jalal
Talibani to be named puppet "president of Iraq," while the Shi'i chauvinist
Da'wah Party leader Ibrahim al-Ja'fari is to be named "prime minister"...

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The horrifically ignored 'Collateral Damage' carnage
Imad Khadduri , Free Iraq
Dear Imad, Sorry to convey to you that the daughter of Dr. Hamodi Abbas
Hameed was killed while traveling to Amman by American convoy for no reason
whatsoever. I am giving you hereunder rundown of the accident, and Dr.
Hamodi kindly ask you to send to CBS or any other mass media (...) I hope
you can do something to make it known about the thousands of Iraqi's that
are being such killed, with no one even mentioning it...

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Talabani to Be New Iraqi President
Edward Wong The New York Times
The major political parties of Iraq agreed Tuesday evening to appoint a
president and two vice presidents at a meeting of the national assembly on
Wednesday, breaking a two-month deadlock and taking the first significant
step in forming a new government (...) The main Shiite and Kurdish
political blocs have agreed to name Jalal Talabani, a Kurdish leader, as
president; Adel Abdul Mehdi, a prominent Shiite Arab politician as one vice
president; and ! Sheik Ghazi al-Yawar, the Sunni Arab president of the
interim government, as the other vice president, said Hussein
al-Shahristani, a vice speaker of the assembly...

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Four U.S. Soldiers Die In Iraq Clashes
Associated Press
The military said Tuesday four more U.S. soldiers died in recent clashes
across Iraq. Two soldiers died in a joint attack Monday on insurgents in an
eastern province. An explosion also killed a Marine in Anbar province
Monday. Another soldier died Tuesday when an abandoned taxi exploded in
Baghdad near a U.S. patrol. Four other soldiers were wounded. The day also
has seen increased attacks on government officials...

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Probe suggests CIA role in Iraqi deaths
Reuters
CIA interrogations may have played a role in the deaths of several
detainees in Iraq, as Bush administration lawyers were advocating an
aggressive interrogation policy that critics say led to torture, military
documents and officials say. U.S. officials have formally disclosed the
death of only one person interrogated by the CIA in Iraq -- Manadel
al-Jamadi, an unregistered "ghost" prisoner at Abu Ghraib who died November
4, 2003, while handcuffed in a prison shower! room...


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Executive Impunity
Igor Volsky, www.dissidentvoice.org
On its surface, the final report of the presidential commission on
intelligence is another whitewash and rehash of previous investigations
into pre-war intelligence debacles. The president appointed the commission
reluctantly, delayed its final report calculatingly and "did not authorize
it to investigate how policy makers had used the intelligence they
received." Yet a close read and a cursory knowledge of modern political
events still confirms the President! 's role in deliberate deception...


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America is usurping the democratic will in Iraq
To forestall a clerical-driven religious regime, Washington has a plan to
arm small militias
Michael Meacher, Independent
It's two months now since the elections in Iraq, and still no government is
formed. The struggle over the Sunni problem, the Kurdish claim for the
massive Kirkuk oilfields, and the manoeuvring between religious groups and
contending personalities continues unabated. But there is a deeper problem
still. There are two scenarios f! or Iraq. One, the American one, aims for
a pro-Western government, an uninterrupted supply of Middle East oil to US
markets, and a semi-permanent military base in the area to ensure that the
first two objectives are secured. The other is more complex, and only now
slowly beginning to emerge...

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Exclusive: Iraqi Mujahideen Claim To Have Killed CIA Shadow Director in Iraq
Information Clearing House
...Congratulations to our Great Army. We congratulate you to the Demise of
Dale C. Stoffel a CIA Shadow Manager in Iraq, and a close friend of George
Bush. He is more important than Bremer and his lot of Generals. He was
killed on the 8th of December 2004 after close monitoring of our moles on
the hands of the Islamic Jihad Brigades...

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O'Reilly on Pope: "Saddam Enabler," "Detached from Reality"
http://thinkprogress.org/index.php?p=576
More right-wing bashing of Pope John Paul II:
O'Reilly Then: "John Paul has sent his emissary, Cardinal Pio Laghi, to
tell President Bush that attacking Iraq would be 'unjust' and 'immoral.'
That's like sending Sister Mary Theresa to tell Eminem to stop
cursing…Humanistically, [the pope] is one of the many Saddam enablers"...


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Prisoners riot at Iraqi detention camp
AAP
Prisoners at a US-run detention camp in southern Iraq rioted on April 1,
the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) confirmed following a
denial of the incident by the US military. "There was a riot at Camp Bucca
on April 1. An ICRC delegation was there that day on one of its regular
prisoner visits and it is now following up the situation, " said Christophe
Beney, the head of the ICRC's Baghdad delegation...

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